Locked Rooms

For the first time in trade paperback and timed to coincide with the eagerly anticipated release of the brand-new Mary Russell mystery, The God of the Hive, comes the classic, New York Times bestselling mystery.

“A truly bravura performance with all the magnetic appeal of the best of the original Conan Doyle novels.”-The Strand Magazine

En route to San Francisco to settle her family’s estate, Mary Russell, in the company of husband Sherlock Holmes, falls prey to troubling dreams-and even more troubling behavior. In 1906, when Mary was six, the city was devastated by a catastrophic earthquake. For years Mary has insisted she lived elsewhere at the time. But Holmes knows better.

Soon it is clear that whatever unpleasantness Mary wanted to forget hasn’t forgotten her. A series of mysterious deaths leads Russell and Holmes from the winding streets of Chinatown to the unspoken secrets of a parent’s marriage and the tragic “accident” that Mary alone survived. What Russell discovers is that even a forgotten past never dies . . . and it can kill again.

Author Biography

Laurie R. Kingis theNew York Timesbestselling author of thirteen Mary Russell mysteries, five contemporary novels featuring Kate Martinelli, the Stuyvesant & Grey novelsTouchstoneandThe Bones of Paris, and the acclaimedA Darker Place, Folly,andKeeping Watch. She lives in Northern California.